updates to HaXml (1.13.1 and 1.16)

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Mon Jul 10 09:29:01 EDT 2006


On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

> For those living on the development edge, I'd like to report that the
> current darcs version
>     darcs get http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/HaXml
> contains a new set of parser combinators (with the same API as before)
> that is lazier, whilst still allowing backtracking.  By lazy, I mean it
> can start to return partial values as soon as it has consumed e.g. the
> start tag of an element, without waiting to check that the close tag
> matches.  This has two good effects:
>
>   * your program will run faster
>   * it will consume less memory

I'm currently trying the latest version from the Darcs repository. The
Canonicalise* examples output a lot of spaces within tags.


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